An excerpt from the 2021 Fleming Foundation Summer Symposium from Dr. Fleming’s lecture, “ Boethius, Failure and Success”. Lectures are now available for download at the website store for a limited time introductory price of 99.00.
Dr. Trifkovic reflects on 50 years since the publishing of Jean Raspail’s Camp of the Saints.
Life is rife with disappointments, none more bewildering, perhaps, than the crash of adolescent illusions. Ever since the distant days of youth I have had a soft spot for the nostalgia of the Russian gypsy song, those early twentieth-century laments that, rather like a gypsy fortune teller, seemed to foretell the impending loss of our homeland and of our liberty.
Long ago when Trump first took office, I advised him on Fleming Foundation to fire all his generals. Including the admirals. Instead, he packed them into his administration: Gen. Mattis, Gen. Kelly, Gen. McMaster. The only good one, Gen. Flynn, got railroaded by Trump’s own “Justice” Department, then later exonerated.
In this episode, Dr. Fleming and Stephen confront the doubling of #6 to #12. Subjects include: -Mind reading as a gateway to the occult -The feeling of reality when your identity is in question -Dr. Fleming’s father’s left-handedness -Dr. Fleming’s take on second chances To prepare for the following episode, watch “The General.”
Dr. Fleming explains to Rex, Foreign policy, Diplomacy and the fish or cut bait theory
In a world growing evermore progressive – I suspect the Gadarene swine thought this tendency marvelous as they went off the cliff – one has to work hard to stay in place.
Russell Gordon is a photographer and journalist. This article was originally published in the Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs in 1994.
Dr. Trifkovic gives our listeners a survey of the state of affairs from West to East: Brexit, the coming French Presidential elections, Germany post-Merkel, Putin for the foreseeable future, Erdogan’s path in Turkey, Bibi’s last act?
When I selected the first Bulldog Drummond for our ongoing discussion of books, it was partly because it is the kind of old-fashioned adventure that people like to read in the summer, and partly the author’s understand of certain fundamental things of life might remind readers of the “world we have lost.”
